The Good News of Resistance, 4.22.2017
1. A while back, I was sitting outside at RISE with a young Irish-Jewish American friend who asked me, when I showed her a particular chapter in Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine, “Who is Abbie Hoffman?” …
Category: Compositions
Two Views on Civilization
1. The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and…
Dear Srimatiji
You often said to me When we were face to face in Chicago “No worry” So I write to you far away With beaming confidence “No hurry”
Hate
What is hateful to thee, do not do unto thy fellow Rabbi Hillel It is indeed human nature to hate the man whom you have injured. Tacitus
Seeing is Believing
1. Two years later, when I went to the United States to explain the suffering of the Vietnamese people and to plead for peace in Vietnam, I saw a woman on television carrying a wounded baby…
Two Vietnamese: Hồ and Thầy–Revolutionary Morality & Buddhist Morality
Hồ Chí Minh 1. Step by step, during the course of the struggle, by studying Marxism-Leninism while engaging in practical activities, I gradually understood that only socialism and communism can liberate the oppressed nations and…
Facing the Facts
My life is mapped out: it is my destiny to take a bullet by the Mafia some day. The only thing I don’t know is when. —Giovanni Falcone See how the accusations against the…
Crucifixion & Resurrection
1. All that could happen to one who joined: Imprisoned, hooded, beaten, castrated, eyes pulled out, Buried alive, burned alive. 2. When I saw the disinterred bones of the two of you I remembered you…
Remembering and Forgetting
1. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. –Milan Kundera, Czech/French novelist 2. The Jews of my city are now forgotten, erased from its memory. Before, there were some…
To Hope is To Gamble
1. The work of this emotion requires people who throw themselves actively into what is becoming, to which they themselves belong. To hope is to give yourself to the future, and that commitment to the…